Owner of Mets and Hedge Fund Leaves Twitter, Citing Threats

Owner of Mets and Hedge Fund Leaves Twitter, Citing Threats
The logo of U.S. social network Twitter displayed on the screen of a smartphone and a tablet in Toulouse, southern France, on Oct. 26, 2020. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images
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NEW YORK—The owner of the New York Mets says he has dropped off Twitter because his family received threats that he attributed to “misinformation” that was not tied to the baseball team.

Steve Cohen’s hedge fund, Point72, has become entangled in market turmoil that has pitted a band of small investors against traders that made bets against—or “shorted”—stock of companies including GameStop.